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Verificationism, philosophy: verificationism is, in the narrower sense, the view that the meaning of statements consists through the method of their verification (their confirmation). It follows that statements which cannot be verified are ultimately meaningless. See also anti-realism, realism, empiricist sense criterion.
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Barry Stroud on Verificationism - Dictionary of Arguments

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Verificationism / Stroud: in everyday life, it is never satisfied. - A successful theory of confirmation must therefore show what is wrong with the concept of confirmation.
>Confirmation
, >Verification, >Science, >Method.
But the problem of the external world is true for each term of confirmation as empirically undecidable.
>External world, >World, >Reality, >World/thinking, >Observation,
>Perception, >Knowledge, >Certainty.

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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Stroud I
B. Stroud
The Significance of philosophical scepticism Oxford 1984


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